Unmanned Vessels Threaten to Undermine the Sea-Based Deterrent
Center for Maritime Strategy
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As UMVs proliferate, American policymakers must contemplate a day when ubiquitous sensing renders the Navy’s SSBN fleet vulnerable, altering arms control prospects, undermining nuclear risk reduction efforts, and challenging the assumptions underlying a secure second-strike capability.?
By Laurel Baker In The MOC, September 27, 2024
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5 个月In every instance, where new technology is being recommended or introduced, there has to be an “operational” assessment that measures a system’s true value. You can apply analytic rigor against all joint and naval mission threads to include NMETL’s to account for manpower sensitivies and efficiencies. You can assess against compromised and denied environments. You can inject opeval rigor long before you spend billions of dollars to build a prototype that does not come close to meeting the need. Using digital twins for most systems makes great use of our many ranges and labs. Address the goods and others upfront.
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5 个月Good read and Unfortunately not a unrealistic outlook. Work to do for military S&T.
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5 个月its the size of a pos- war SST and costs 10x as much. The is is NOT a LUUV that the USN needs
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5 个月Big week for CMS! UUV threat by Laurel Baker a must read! See our Non-Resident Fellow, John McCown's comments on the ILA Strike and impact. The Middle East heats up with Noah Robertson's commentary in Defense Opinion. Listen to Professor Brenda Shaffer's insightful commentary on Operational Energy in the latest edition of the Maritime Nation Podcast.